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Certainly the Women's Movement had never before made it big among the ladies. It had made a brief run through the gauntlet of talk and come out, like all of the other left wing happenings, a safer, milder mannered form of the real thing. The kids would come home starving and the mother would tell them to leave her alone, she was now liberated. Or she would hire an extra maid to set her even freer. For this, A Doll's House was just liberated enough...
...pressured by superiors into approving benefits for "frauds." These range from twice-married widows collecting two separate benefit checks to "black-lung-disabled" healthy young men who worked in the mines only briefly. Prodded by Davis, the General Accounting Office issued a report citing abuses, though its criticism was milder than Davis...
...Watergate that some of his aides were interfering with a full investigation into the wiretapping and thus, in effect, were already starting a cover-up operation. Gray made this claim last week to Senator Lowell Weicker Jr., a member of the Ervin committee, and repeated it in a milder version to the committee staff. If it is true, Nixon not only disregarded news of White House involvement for some ten months, as he has conceded, but he also ignored the warning of the nation's highest police official...
...impressive example of growth is the Southern Baptist Convention, which has maintained a staunchly biblical faith. Young people of all faiths are also turning to one aspect or another of the Jesus movement (TIME, June 21, 1971). Some elect the totalitarian disciplines of the Children of God; others choose milder groups, stressing love and salvation more than hellfire and brimstone. On campuses and in outdoor extravaganzas like last year's EXPLO '72 in Dallas, many are opting for the handbook pieties of the Campus Crusade for Christ. The uncompromising focus of all these groups is the same, quoted...
...essence this mythic pattern is a slightly milder version of competitive swimming's Wild in the Streets timetable: Win big early and keep on winning or you will find yourself consigned permanently to ski racer's limbo at a very early age. As a rule of thumb, the mileposts are these: undefeated in Torger Tokle and Junior racing circuits to the age of 16, win Something Big by 18, and only a World Cup win or Olympic medal will save you past the age of 21. Over 21 sir? Hand over your race bib and step right into Charon...